Not just a money box, this is a psychedelic penguin money box from Punto It.
Punto It is a Japanese designer and the penguin is one item from the Animal Bank series of money boxes created by Ideaco. Sized at 14 x 13 x 23cm, this ceramic bird has a slot to drop in your coins at the top – and hopefully a way of accessing the cash later. Let’s be honest, you won’t want to smash it open with a hammer.
Available from Paul Smith, you can pick one up for £20.
Find out more at the Paul Smith website
In its own little way, the 13 amp fuse is something of an inconic design – just about everyone knows what one looks like. So I guess that makes the 13 Amp Fuse lamp a design classic by default?
Probably not – but it’s certainly an eye-catching light for the home. A replica of the fuse, obviously increased in size considerably (to 33.5cm x 8cm x 8cm) and now housing a bulb and diffuser, but maintaining the brown and white label and brushed steel end caps.
You can pick one up online, priced at £69.95.
Find out more at the Firebox website
We have featured Brazilia Interiors previously, a company that focuses on the best design out of Brazil, both past and present – and this Aranha coffee table is certainly one of the gems from the current range.
Originally offered for sale in Brazil in the 1950s, the Aranha is a simple yet effective design by Roberto Aflalo, which sets a toughened glass on top of a sucupira base (a heavy and durable wood). There’s also room for a shelf underneath for your magazines and essentials.
This is a re-edition, not an original and it retails at a rather hefty £1950.
Sometimes the most simple designs can be the most eye-catching, like this J-Me Key Dootstop, based on a good old-fashioned Yale key.
And there’s not much else to say, expect that it is made of non-slip rubber and is sized at 150mm x 70mm, with a choice of colours that includes black, yellow and red.
You can pick one up online now, priced at £7.50.
Find out more at the J-Me website
Another astoundingly modern-looking design dating back to the Bauhaus heyday, the Albers Nesting Tables have been reissued by Vitra.
Designed by Josef Albers for the house of a Berlin psychoanalyst Fritz Moellenhaf, they combine geometric shapes with bold colours, turquoise, yellow, red and blue, lacquered underneath glass tops.
They cost £1030 from The Lighthouse. Not cheap but remember for that price, you are getting four tables, which doesn’t make it seem quite so bad!
In the quest to find the ultimate statement seating, the Tokyo Soft Lounge Chair must come pretty near the top of the list. The combination of pure white leather and its distinctive curves make it hard to ignore.
Designed by Tokujin Yoshioka for Driade, it costs just under £1,400. There is a small cheaper version, the Tokyo Pop also available for less than £600.
It’s a bold and striking piece of furniture but not very practical, especially if you’ve got pets or small children. However, it does also come in other colours (including a great orange) which might be more functional.
For further details visit Interiors – The Studio.
